The destruction of New Orleans?

“if you can get to them where do you take them?”

“Wounded Knee:

Where did this info come from....

I am in Africa and cannot get up to date info....”

“I heard it on the radio here. CNN is reporting it also.”

“They are now evaculating the Superdome because the roof is leaking and they fear it may collapse.

The dome has been with out power and AIR CONDITIONING for a few hours now.”
Wounded Knee
9:10:34 AM
8/29/05


the latest report says nothing about evaculating the Superdome.

"NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina ripped away part of the roof on the Louisiana Superdome as thousands of storm refugees huddled inside Monday.

Strips of metal were peeled away, creating two holes that were visible from the floor of the huge arena. Water dripped in and people were moved away from about five sections of seats directly below.

Others watched as sheets of metal flapped visibly and noisily. From the floor, more than 19 stories below the dome, the openings appeared to be 6 feet long.

"The superdome is not in any dangerous situation," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.

General Manager Glenn Menard said he did not know how serious the problem was. "We have no way of getting anyone up there to look," he said."


I hope they have a plan when the rest of the roof goes.”

“Ewker scooped me...saw it on Fox News website.
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“Keep me updated guys..... I can not get info in Africa very fast.”

“Not looking good at the Superdome.

Yikes, our own real life freakin' disaster movie!

And about the barges, etc and grain harvest. Wow, hadn't thought of that. But should of. Lord knows I live in the heartland, where train cars, semi trailers and barges are all laden with grain -- and the Mississippi just an hour away.

So that could really hit all our area farmers!”

“I called the radio station that reported the evacuation and said I cannot find this information anywhere. They appoligized and said it was a slip of the tongue.

Nice.”

“Lizs, the upper midwest has enough grain storage to hold this years harvest.

Shipping will be slow down the Mississippi to the Port in New Orleans for quite some time. Fortunately, the rail lines can pick up the slack and move grain to other ports. At Memphis, the Mississippi River has been so low that barge traffic has been minimal anyway. They won't have to worry about that for long. All the rain that hits the Tennessee River and Ohio River Valley in the next few days will find its way downstream.”

“one definate breach in the dyke system.”

“Good thing the Republcans have done such a great job of preparing for this eventuality: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367”

“That was amazing prescience Vi. If Nawlins washes out to sea they won't need the funds.

oops, (/sarcasm font)
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“June 6th article.
"...Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now..."

Such awesome timing. Ya just can't make this stuff up.”

“Biloxi is catching it now:

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“http://www.cnn.com/

watch the hell on earth video...that guy is insane!”

“major pump failure in the ninth ward. Hundreds trapped on roofs as more than 6 feet of water in some places.”

“
A fishing camp owner search for belongings after
Hurricane Georges hit Lake Catherine LA.


More than 100 fishing camps were washed away in
Lake Pontchartrain, during Hurricane Georges


idents of New Orleans walk through high water on Sept. 26, 2002, after checking on their property, in the background, in the wake of Tropical Storm Isidore.


A restaurant on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans is pummeled by high waves during Hurricane Georges.


I hear that this one is much worse....”

“Dude, I cant find a "Hell on Earth" video.”

“BWM its on CNN.com”

“The link for it on their home page is gone.”

“anybody seeing anything new? nothing new on CNN?”

“Crap.... I knew something was up.


I gotta go do some Djibouti biz-nass.

keep me updated, I have some friends down there.”

“An amazing phone call just aired on The Weather Channel a few minutes ago from Jim Cantore's producer, Simon Temperton. The two of them are at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Miss. (current conditions), where they have sought refuge from rapidly rising floodwaters on the second floor along with 300-400 residents of the home.

Here's some of what Simon reported in his phone call:

"We're going through some unbelievable conditions. Water is seeping into the building. I'd say we've had at least a 20-feet [of] storm surge. It has washed away all our rental cars, and everything else [in the parking lot]...

"Now water is seeping into the home and they are evacuating everyone to the second floor. I'm standing in 5 or 6 inches of water [on the second floor]. The power is out. There are a few emergency lights. It's a very daunting prospect right now....

"It's a very dangerous situation. I've been doing this for 15 years, and [I've] been Mr. Cantore's producer for many hurricanes, and I've never seen anything like this. This is probably the scariest situation we've ever been in -- just the sudden rise of water and how fast. They said we were good here for 27, 30 feet [of storm surge] -- they've never seen anything like it. They thought we were completely safe.

"We're not even shooting [video] anymore. We're basically in self-preservation [mode] right now. We're helping people put up boards and sandbags to keep the water from coming in. We've become part of the crew.

"In the time we've been talking, the water has risen, I'd say, another 3 inches. It's up to the top of my boots. The water keeps rising."

-- Posted by Laurel, Product Manager, The Weather Channel Interactive”

“holy crap”

“Those people do take incredible risks. Not sure seeing video is worth somebody's life.

Cantore is always were the action is.”

“Geez, can't you guys report any good news.
I mean, you always focus on the negative.
What about the good things that are going on there?

(sarcasm font......tee hee!!)”

“Exactly, Mark - all the trouble is located in one small part of the country, while pretty much the rest of the country is going smoothly! but you don't hear the media report that, now do you?!?!?”

“I'm still laughing at Violin's attempt to turn this into a political rant.”

“Rush Limbaugh said at the beginning of his Radio program that the left would try to turn this into a political issue. Violin proves Rush to be correct.”

“Right! So what New Orleans washed out to sea? We can always hold Mardi Gras in Vegas.”

“Mobile has a smaller and less-well-known Mardi Gras celebration every year as well. They also have a nice deep-water port that can be reached from the Mississippi via the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway, although I doubt if it can handle more than a small fraction of the shipping that the Port of Southern Louisiana does.”

“Yeah, I guess linking to the Red Cross donation page was a bad thing.


Last night Cantore was saying they expected they might have film of water on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. Apparantly the place is built like a brick #&%!$ house so they figured they'd be safe. If the first floor is submerged, things are pretty grim for the entire area.”

“

From this live blog”

“"Rush Limbaugh said at the beginning of his Radio program ...... lol"

There'll be plenty of time to point fingers after all this.”

“That is a scary photo Bit!”

“Yep...apparently it's just a covering over the roof though..it's not as if that entire area is open to the sky.”

“The very worst should be over in New Orleans now. The eye is about a hundred miles inland in Mississippi and still showing up clearly in satellite shots.

Still rain and gusts in NO, likely.”

“Quote from an AP reporter in New Orleans:

"It's blustery. You can see the speed of it now, it's unbelievable," he said. "The power went out about an hour and a half ago and so now I'm just watching the occasional dumbass walking down Canal Street." ”

“I sometimes wonder if dumbasses are the most resilient form of life known to man.”

“Nice quote, IJ! After one of the storms last year (I forget which one there were so many!) HPM and I were some of the dumbasses driving around in the pitch black at 5 am. We couldn't sleep because of the noise, there was a large tree branch hanging over my car, there was no power in the house so we decided to sit in the ait conditioned car that was moved from harm's way. :)

We'd look around town, and what looked like big bolts of lightning was actually segments of the power grid being destroyed. It was like watching a Godzilla movie.”

“Here comes the next one...

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“Mississippi is now taking it harder than New Orleans, if the photos on CNN.com are any indication.”

“this hurricane is great - finally something interesting to read in the news.”

“The thing I want to know is, how is New Orleans an immediate threat to the US? What did New Orleans do to us? I want us out of New Orleans NOW or taking to a ditch and never coming out!!”

“Its iniquity draws large hurricanes to our shores.”

“CNN is showing video of some horrible wreckage.”

“reflecting on this, the selfish dumbasses who COULD have evacuated but didnt because of "this is my home im not leaving it" or "im relying on the superdome to save me" kind of piss me off. theyre just adding to the misery of people who had no other option and are trapped in squalid conditions for the next several days or weeks, and making things more difficult for rescue squads, emergency relief, etc”

“I wouldn't want live on the Gulf Coast in late August into September without electicity/air conditioning. Some of those places are predicted to be without electricity for a month.”

“I wouldn't want to live anywhere in the South in August or September without airconditioning.”